Potty Mouth

When it comes to teaching your kids about their bodies and where babies come from, God's best teaching aid is toilet training. I don't mean to be gross here, but the essential parts are co-located in such a way that when you're explaining where pee-pee comes out, you can also talk about where the Daddy seeds come out or where babies come out of grown-up ladies. If that sounds way too early to be bringing these things up, bear in mind the great advantages of this approach. First of all, you're tying their reproductive parts to reproductive purposes right from the outset, so they get in the habit of thinking of their stuff as having some point beyond how it looks and feels. Second, they're still at a stage where they're inclined to take your word on things, so you can introduce ideas about modesty and privacy and safety without worrying that you're "giving them ideas" or bogging down in debate. If you tell a two-year-old things like "don't put things in your butt" or "only Mommy or the doctor or maybe Daddy should look at your piska " (an all-purpose Russian word designating the parts whence cometh pee and other bodily fluids) you are introducing valuable life safety concepts to your child without introducing the other questions that would immediately occur to an older child (like what could I put in my butt? or "why would a grown-up want to look at my private parts?) The bottom line is that having lots of little talks with your kids from their early childhood about how God made them is a lot easier and more effective than saving up for one awkward Big Talk About Sex When They're Old Enough To Understand.